Dates / Schedules
Saturday, February 7th2026 4:00pm (Floor 2)
Free participation, upon purchase of a ticket to the Museum, subject to the number of seats available.
Music
Music in the Museum
Sonatas and Interludes is regarded as one of John Cage’s masterpieces and a landmark in 20th-century music history. Composed between 1946 and 1948, the work is written for prepared piano — a grand piano in which screws, bolts, rubbers, and other objects are inserted between the strings to radically transform its sound, revealing unexpected timbres that often evoke Balinese gamelan and African drums.
More than a mere auditory experience, Sonatas and Interludes offers a meditative form of listening, where sound becomes an object of contemplation and discovery. The work challenges the traditional notion of music as melody or harmony, inviting the audience to lose themselves in texture, color, and silence.
Before each concert, join the guided tour and discover the dialogues that emerge between works from the Berardo Collection and the composers.
- Guided tour New Realism and Pop 30 min. before the concert (3:30pm, Floor 2)
The Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation reserves the right to collect, store and use recordings of image, sound and voice, for the purposes of dissemination and for preserving the memory of its cultural and artistic activities, as well as its spaces. Should you require any further information, please contact us at the following email address: privacidade@ccb.pt
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Ages
+6
Data sheet
Piano Elsa Silva
On the days of the Ciclo Música no Museu, the programme A Voz das Cores, on Antena 2 and by Andrea Lupi, will be entirely dedicated to the concert and to the works on view at MAC/CCB.
Photo: Elsa Silva @Perseu Mandillo
Programme
John Cage (1912–1992) Sonatas e Interlúdios, for prepared piano
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